Well, I was actually talking about a lilo parameter so that Linux can see all the memory on MB's that Linux has problems with. I don't really care how one MB counts memory up in the post test, but I do know that 2-64 meg DIMMs are equal to 128 megs of ram and no more...the post test on most motherboards does show the kilobytes instead of megabytes which was all I was saying and it can be misconstrued as more memory then is actually there if the 1024 rules is not remembered. Yeah, I guess the millenium thing is a nice debate, but as far as memory counting is concerned..I really don't think there is much debate about it. I have been dealing with X86 PC's for a number of years and I never found it to be in question. No worries..it's cool..
Whatever the counting method, my BIOS automatically detects the amount of memory; there's no way to set it and therefore no way to get it wrong.
The question of how to count RAM reminds me a little of the debates over whether the millenium begins on 1/1/2000 or 1/1/2001. On bootup, my BIOS announces that I have 131,072KB of memory; and I'll readily admit that it would probably have been clearer to refer to that in these posts as 128MB.
The whole issue came up because I incorrectly remembered what the BIOS said when I was posting my original message about my disk problems.
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